It is now recording the conditions outside of the sun's protective magnetic field, or heliosphere, which blankets our solar ...

After completing their primary mission in 1989, the probes continued their journey, venturing into the far reaches of the ...

This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed the 'Pale Blue Dot', is part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames ...

Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...

This was the first software update made to a spacecraft in interstellar space. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, face declining power levels due to the decay of their plutonium-238 power supplies ...

Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so ... and 1980s during their primary mission in our Solar System, to their journey into the unknown of Deep ...

Investigating uncharted territoryVoyager 1 and Voyager 2, originally designed to fly by the largest planets in our solar system, are now the most distant objects made by humans.Voyager 1 is more ...

To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are shutting off one scientific instrument on Voyager 1 and ... from our solar system and the ...

That creates a shockwave, termed “termination shock,” and presents a fascinating opportunity to gather unique data about the edges of our solar system ... miss it.” Voyager 1 and 2 both ...

After a hiatus since November, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has resumed transmitting ... A magnetic monster in deep space': A rare star system that may bend spacetime found 'Day temperature of ...